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The Johan Sverdrup Oil Field development has been given the green light and major contracts have been awarded. Johan Sverdrup is among the largest oil fields on the Norwegian shelf, and will at peak contribute with 25% of the production from the Norwegian shelf.

Summary Information

Operator: Maersk

Country: UK

Location: Blocks 9/14a and 9/14b, North Sea

Production start: 2001

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Type: Oil

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Description

The Leadon Field is located on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (“UKCS”), approximately eight (8) kilometres east of the Beryl Field and twenty five (25) kilometres from the Gryphon Field. The Leadon Field straddles UKCS Blocks 9/14a and 9/14b.

The Leadon Field was produced via the floating production storage and offloading vessel (“FPSO”) known as Global Producer III FPSO (“GPIII”)

The Birse and Glassel oil fields were developed as satellites

Crude oil was exported by offshore tanker loading; and fuel gas was imported via a four (4) inch flexible flowline connected to the Beryl Alpha platform.

The Subsea infrastructure consists of two drill centres. Drill Centre A (North towhead) has seven production wells and two water injectors and is linked to a mid-line structure, close to the FPSO location by a 42.5in bundle section. Drill Centre B (South Towhead) consists of three production wells, two water injectors and two aquifer wells and is linked to the mid-line structure by a 47.5in bundle section.

Contractors

Aker Solutions: Electrostatic coalescer - EPC

History

1979 - The Leadon Field was discovered by the British National Oil Corporation